Dean of the university’s Arts and Humanities Division had asked for recommendations on ‘structural cuts’. This comes in the backdrop of reports of “substantial restructuring” under the Trump administration.
In multilingual India, the future of science must be polyphonic—bridging English precision with regional inclusion to democratise discovery and empower every curious mind.
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Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
Not just Chicago, all other US and UK universities should close their South Asia programs/departments.
These are the centres of indoctrination where young impressionable minds are brainwashed and turned into Hinduphobic and Indophobic individuals. It is from these centres of “learning” that “scholars” such as Audrey Truschke graduate – the ones who refer to Lord Rama as a “misogynist pig”.
This is a very tightly knit community of Hindu/India haters – ones who pat each other’s backs and promote each other’s “scholarship”. The sooner such departments are closed down, the better off the world will be.
Great news indeed!
Earnestly hope that the South Asian Languages and Civilizations department at University of Chicago closes down completely.
People like Wendy Doniger and Sheldon Pollock are agenda-driven ‘intellectuals’ out to dehumanize and delegitimize Indian history and civilization. Hindus, Buddhists and Jains are their specific targets. The University of Chicage has always been a hub of anti-India. more specifically anti-Hindu/Buddhist/Jain, academics. These are the very same individuals who give Pakistan/Bangladesh a a free pass while India accountable for minority persecution. They don’t speak a word on Islamism and jihadi terrorism. Neither do they condemn the anti-Hindu pogroms and other atrocities in Pakistan/Bangladesh.
But when India enacted the CAA and the NRC was carried out in Assam, these very same academics were on the streets decrying India and defaming it as “fascist”, “majoritarian” and what not.
One less source of snakes polluting the Ganga?
Not just Chicago, all other US and UK universities should close their South Asia programs/departments.
These are the centres of indoctrination where young impressionable minds are brainwashed and turned into Hinduphobic and Indophobic individuals. It is from these centres of “learning” that “scholars” such as Audrey Truschke graduate – the ones who refer to Lord Rama as a “misogynist pig”.
This is a very tightly knit community of Hindu/India haters – ones who pat each other’s backs and promote each other’s “scholarship”. The sooner such departments are closed down, the better off the world will be.
Great news indeed!
Earnestly hope that the South Asian Languages and Civilizations department at University of Chicago closes down completely.
People like Wendy Doniger and Sheldon Pollock are agenda-driven ‘intellectuals’ out to dehumanize and delegitimize Indian history and civilization. Hindus, Buddhists and Jains are their specific targets. The University of Chicage has always been a hub of anti-India. more specifically anti-Hindu/Buddhist/Jain, academics. These are the very same individuals who give Pakistan/Bangladesh a a free pass while India accountable for minority persecution. They don’t speak a word on Islamism and jihadi terrorism. Neither do they condemn the anti-Hindu pogroms and other atrocities in Pakistan/Bangladesh.
But when India enacted the CAA and the NRC was carried out in Assam, these very same academics were on the streets decrying India and defaming it as “fascist”, “majoritarian” and what not.